Patch 5.1: Realm Event Time Changes, Transmogable Guild Cloaks

Today's 5.1 news round up covers everything from fun vanity items to event time changes. On the light-hearted side of things, we have information on a new disguise from Blingtron 4000 and transmoggable guild cloaks. On the more serious side of things, we have information on standardized region-wide times for events like the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza, which returned in 5.1 after a hiatus due to CRZ complications, when to expect Brawler's Guild Invitations on the BMAH, and clarifications on the new Beastmaster dailies like Beastmaster's Quarry: The Crane.

And in sad news, we have confirmation from Dave Kosak on twitter that the Warlock "green fire" questline everyone was looking forward to was pushed back to 5.2.

If all the 5.1 talk sounds new and foreign, check out our complete 5.1 Patch Day Guide from yesterday!

Blingtron 4000: Let's Party!

Blingtron 4000 now wants to party in 5.1! There's now a Party dialogue option, which buffs you with Dressed to Kill lasting 60 minutes. This buff transforms you into a human with a stylish black-and-white pantsuit (several fashion variations) along with a snazzy hat like Stylin' Adventure Hat.

Transmogable Guild Cloaks

Blizzard Game Designer Dave Maldonado announced on twitter that guild cloaks are transmoggable in 5.1! While the following six capes can be customized with the guild's colors and logo, each cape has distinctive characteristics that remain constant across guild designs. If you're looking for the perfect outfit to match your guild cape, check out our gallery of Transmog Sets.

Click the cut to read about the Realm Event Time Changes, and how that effects things like the STV fishing contest and dailies.

Realm Event Time Changes

Zarhym

With Patch 5.1: Landfall we’ve reactivated the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza. To accomplish this we reevaluated the way time-based events work in World of Warcraft. The time zone designation for a realm doesn’t always correlate with its real-world location, and that designation has traditionally directed a player to choose a realm that shares their local time. With cross-realm features like zone coalescing (CRZ) and Raid/Dungeon Finder, linking event reset or lockout times to realm times has caused a lot of confusion, such as zones flipping between day and night upon zoning, and created substantial issues with limited-time events, such as Azeroth’s fishing tournaments.

North American Daily Event Times

In Patch 5.1 we’ve moved most time-based events on North American realms to standardized, region-wide times. Below are the updated event times for all North American realms, regardless of your realm’s local time (excluding Oceanic realms).

Times displayed in North American Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8 hours)

Note that, due to the extreme time zone difference, Oceanic realms have a separate standardized time, and Oceanic realms aren’t coalesced with non-Oceanic realms for cross-realm zones. Oceanic realms are, however, still a part of the North American matchmaking pool for Scenarios, Dungeon Finder, Raid Finder, Battlegrounds, and Arenas, in order to ensure that the matchmaking system is able to draw from a healthy population of players at any given hour. Because of this, raid/dungeon lockouts will continue to reset at the same time for North American and Oceanic realms (i.e. reset times will still vary depending on your local time).

*Day/night changeovers are not currently set to the times listed above and will be updated in a hotfix as soon as possible.

For those folks whose play schedules are adversely affected by this, and who are blaming realm coalescing, let me clarify. It was only a matter of time (get it? ... humph) before we moved to this reset system. The problem with the fishing tournaments and CRZ was just a more blunt reminder that having non-standardized reset times is confusing in a game where realm transfers and cross-realm features are a reality.

We've used a similar system for European realms for quite some time and it's cleaner.

The new system will be better for some people, and worse for others, in terms of life schedules. But people have always had different play schedules that we can't always account for, and there are unavoidable inconveniences in that regard. The new system will just take some adjustment.

I'm on a realm where my dailies have been resetting at 1 a.m. my local time, which I've used to my advantage to do back-to-back dailies many nights before bed. I won't be able to do that anymore. But I don't think that's somehow unfair to me. It's logical, to me, for an online, very "real-time" game on the scale of World of Warcraft to have standardized times for time-based content, similar to a basketball game being broadcast live from the west coast.

Brawler's Guild Invitations Available Day After Patch

Nethaera

With the latest patch, 5.1 “Landfall”, we’ve introduced the new feature, the Brawler’s Guild. As we previously announced, entry into the Brawler’s Guild is by invitation only. Invitations can be found on the black market auction house, by invitation from somebody within the guild, and occasionally as drops from certain Horde and Alliance NPCs. Before you rush to your realm’s black market auction house, we wanted to make you aware that invitations may not be available immediately upon realms going live, but should be showing up within the next 24 hours. We wish those of you who choose to take on this next challenge the best of luck in your endeavor.

5.1 Beastmaster Quests

Rygarius

The idea is that with some effort (although we are looking at the drop rates being a bit too low), a player can go farm up the materials to summon one of the 5-person bosses who are then trapped in a cage - and from there everyone can fight it. If there are already animals in the cages there is no need to go out into the field to gather materials to summon another. Everyone can fight the boss and get credit for it (and rep), and killing a boss is a daily, so there's no need to kill more than one.

The entire process should be: someone farms up a boss with a Beastmaster's Hunt quest, everyone fights it together and gets the rep, and you only need to do that once a day.

Comments

Comment by Jazzism

Still no word on a fix for the broken battle pets screen? It doesn't actually show dead pets since the patch and I was trying to figure out why I was attacking shorthanded.

Comment by Lytha

on 2012/11/28 13:08:06

So now I need to know what time it is in real life (EST) and my realm time (Scarlet Crusade - CST) and PST time for event times ...

and seriously ... profession and farming cd at 3am pst is 6am for me ... that is a 5 hour change from what it was ... there are many days i knew i wouldn't be on the following day so i banged out my cds quick before heading to bed ... not an option now ... now i just lose the day

I understand their office is PST but that makes things so much later for everyone else ...

the fishing for example ... is now at 5pm EST ... dinner time or their abouts

Comment by dashifen

on 2012/11/28 13:51:24

My issue has never been ugly cloaks -- it's the ugly weapon strapped to my back on top of the cloak that bothers me. I'd love an option to hide weapon and then I'd turn my cloak back on!

Comment by Asrail

on 2012/11/28 14:23:53

Blingtron 4000's daily quest seems to be bugged, or (maybe) being considered as account-wide. Yesterday, I logged in with my Shaman in order to use the daily cooldown on Scroll of Wisdom, and there happened to be a Blingtron 4000 near me (on Shrine of Two Moons). I used the CD, logged the Shaman off and logged in with my paladin, that happened to also be in SoTM. I went up to Bingtron, and there was no exclamation point above his head, nor could I do the quest (the only option was getting the Dressed to Kill buff. Anyone having the same problem?

I would have tested it with another character, but those are my only 90s at the moment.

Comment by ElhonnaDS

on 2012/11/28 14:46:36

What about the Northrend fishing daily? You'd think they'd have addressed that.

Still no word on a fix for the broken battle pets screen? It doesn't actually show dead pets since the patch and I was trying to figure out why I was attacking shorthanded.

Mine have been showing up just fine, with a big red X through them. Are you using a pet journal add-on?

Comment by tessae

on 2012/11/28 15:19:37

The entire process should be: someone farms up a boss with a Beastmaster's Hunt quest, everyone fights it together and gets the rep, and you only need to do that once a day.

What actually happens: griefers farm up the quests, wait for others to start the 5 man fight, and then launch the other two bosses before the cage door opens, mount up, and watch the slaughter from above.

Comment by Evloria

on 2012/11/28 16:03:14

Blingtron 4000's daily quest seems to be bugged, or (maybe) being considered as account-wide. Yesterday, I logged in with my Shaman in order to use the daily cooldown on Scroll of Wisdom, and there happened to be a Blingtron 4000 near me (on Shrine of Two Moons). I used the CD, logged the Shaman off and logged in with my paladin, that happened to also be in SoTM. I went up to Bingtron, and there was no exclamation point above his head, nor could I do the quest (the only option was getting the Dressed to Kill buff. Anyone having the same problem?

I would have tested it with another character, but those are my only 90s at the moment.

I'm having this issue as well. You aren't the only one.

Comment by sakera

on 2012/11/28 17:25:23

You may be able to test it on lower level characters. My 82 Draenei Paladin was able to get a Blingtron 4000 quest the other day and received the gift package. Or, is it now (post-patch) only available to 90s?

Comment by kintotech

on 2012/11/28 17:32:33

And as always, druid forms get rid of the costume buff :\"

Comment by edwordrules

on 2012/11/28 19:02:11

So the only question still remains:Will we be able to Mog Don Carlos' Famous Hat?

That is all...

Comment by Sas148

on 2012/11/28 19:22:51

And as always, druid forms get rid of the costume buff :\\

I've always hated that... and there have been other costume's that were unaffected. I have no idea why we continue to be given the short end of the stick on the majority of costume's.

Blingtron 4000's daily quest seems to be bugged, or (maybe) being considered as account-wide. Yesterday, I logged in with my Shaman in order to use the daily cooldown on Scroll of Wisdom, and there happened to be a Blingtron 4000 near me (on Shrine of Two Moons). I used the CD, logged the Shaman off and logged in with my paladin, that happened to also be in SoTM. I went up to Bingtron, and there was no exclamation point above his head, nor could I do the quest (the only option was getting the Dressed to Kill buff. Anyone having the same problem?

I would have tested it with another character, but those are my only 90s at the moment.

This is intended. One per account now, not character.

Comment by Furydeath

on 2012/11/28 19:58:01

You forgot how Blingtron is broken and useless now that it's one time use cause they daily sure doesn't reset.

Comment by Interest

on 2012/11/28 22:54:48

I like how the human has a Horde insignia on the cloak.

Comment by Alfa

on 2012/11/29 06:17:44

Daily quest from blingtron isn't working for me. Never shows the ! after reset

Comment by powatwoopa

on 2012/11/29 06:50:01

So now I need to know what time it is in real life (EST) and my realm time (Scarlet Crusade - CST) and PST time for event times ...

and seriously ... profession and farming cd at 3am pst is 6am for me ... that is a 5 hour change from what it was ... there are many days i knew i wouldn't be on the following day so i banged out my cds quick before heading to bed ... not an option now ... now i just lose the day

I understand their office is PST but that makes things so much later for everyone else ...

the fishing for example ... is now at 5pm EST ... dinner time or their abouts

Removed

Comment by joellink1

on 2012/11/29 09:35:35

mine doesn't show up any pets at all. i can't even select pets t battle with and i'm pretty sure i had a few before patch. it's hard to overlook 180 pets

Comment by ElhonnaDS

on 2012/11/29 09:48:47

I haven't had any issues with my Battle Pets at all- do you have a Pet Journal add-on? I had to disable mine after the patch because it was causing the pet journal to be unusable. As soon as it was off, though, everything worked fine.

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